First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Marked Tree, AR 72365. It is one of 19 churches in Marked Tree.
Marked Tree, AR, 72365First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around First United Methodist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 53.6% (35.5–71.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Food Insecurity: 26.4%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (19.0–34.3%)
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (10.0–21.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Marked Tree city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 245 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anderson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Norbert Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's New Life MBTC — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Industrial Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church of Marked Tree — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Trumann, AR
- Farm Hill United Methodist Church — 17 mi away in Harrisburg, AR
- First United Methodist Church — 18 mi away in Earle, AR
- Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church — 18.3 mi away in Harrisburg, AR
- Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church — 19 mi away in Lake City, AR
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